Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems, 1800, Volume 1

William Wordsworth

It is the honourable characteristic of Poetry that its materials are to be found in every subject which can interest the human mind.

William Wordsworth

III 1896 CONTENTS 1804 "She was a Phantom of delight" "I wandered lonely as a cloud" The Affliction of Margaret-- The Forsaken Repentanc...

William Wordsworth

I 1896 CONTENTS Extract from the Conclusion of a Poem, composed in Anticipation of leaving School Written in very Early Youth An Evening Walk Lines writ...

William Wordsworth

II 1896 CONTENTS Peter Bell Lines, composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a tour, July 13, 1798 There w...

Robert Louis Stevenson

STORY OF THE DOOR Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty,...

Henrik Ibsen

DRAMATIS PERSONAE Torvald Helmer.

Lewis Carroll

CHAPTER I. Down the Rabbit-Hole Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was r...

Charles Dickens

PREFACE I HAVE endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me.